Maria Laet’s work is created by actions and through the results of gestures and subtle interventions, in a practice which involves drawing, engraving, photography and video. These means are like channels, platforms for the artist’s process, like skins, which take in its intentions and reveal the action like an archive. The artworks take place in the concept as well as the physicality of the materials involved, calling attention to the membrane, the space, which connects but at the same time, divides. These encounters are emphasized in the entropic nature of Laet’s work, which tend to seem calm, initially homogenous, but which subtly question the notion of limit.

According to Luisa Duarte, in a critical text written for the exhibition ‘Situação de água’, at Marilia Razuk Gallery, ‘In her actions, the artist is always seeking a thin and invisible line which separates things, people. A line which can be surpassed and touched, promoting the touch, the exchange. But here nothing is concluded. Like the water which doesn’t allow to see her limits, which overflows, there exists here the absence of edge, of end. To inhabit this delicate place, and to get close to it, record its existence, this is what happens in the works of Maria Laet’.

Laet’s works can be found in collections such as Gilberto Chateaubriand Rio de Janeiro, MAC Niterói, FRAC Lorraine, France and Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and AGI Verona Collection, Italy.